Become a Skateboard Coach
Get Rolling Course
The Get Rolling Course
About the course
This is the Skateboard GB accredited skateboarding course. The qualification is designed to provide a benefit to skaters so that it prepares them for employment as a professional coach or instructor in skateboarding.
The Skateboard Delivery course provides a safe and positive entry point, taking the next generation of skateboarders from their first step on a board to basic ramp tricks. The course focuses on participation rather than performance, with the aim of getting more and more young people on skateboards, and involved in a healthier and more active lifestyle.
What you’ll learn
- Principles of planning, delivering and evaluating safe coaching sessions.
- Technical aspects to teaching beginner skateboard sessions.
- How to write and create a lesson plan.
- Anatomy of a skateboard.
- Delivering skatepark etiquette.
What you’ll get from the course
Following the course coaches will be able to plan, deliver and evaluate individual skateboarding sessions in order to get more people skateboarding. In attending the course, coaches are introduced to the practical and theoretical aspects of planning, delivering and evaluating coaching sessions in skateboarding in a safe environment, whether that’s in skateparks, schools or the community.
Price & Times
- £200 per person: Includes 1 year Skateboard GB Coach Membership, with public liability insurance to coach anywhere in the UK.
- Online course on the principles of coaching, followed by a 1 day face-to-face course (usually over a weekend) from 10am until 5pm
Prerequisites
- Anyone wishing to take course must have a basic ability to skateboard: Ability to stand, stop, turn and push a skateboard with confidence are essential
- You must have completed an online safeguarding course (and have a valid DBS check in order to receive the membership)
- Bring your own skateboard and helmet for the course.
- You must be aged 18 or older
Courses
GET ROLLING
Manchester - Graystone Action Sports
Saturday 27th April 2024
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GET ROLLING
Portsmouth - Pitt Street
Monday 29th April 2024
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GET ROLLING (Exclusive to Women & Non-Binary only)
Swansea - Exist Skatepark
Friday 17th May 2024
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Coaching Skills Course
Coaching Skills is a two-day, in-person deep dive into learning theory offering coaching tools and frameworks which support coaches to develop their practice to ensure an inclusive, adaptive and skater-centred approach to coaching.